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Cool Internet sites
Adventures in Garbology: What Trash Can Tell Us
http://itech.fgcu.edu/&/issues/vol2/issue2/garbology.htm
If you aren't careful the cops could rummage through your refuse and find out if you smoke pot. But this is from the archaeological perspective, where trash is very telling about civilizations of the past.
Barro Colorado Webcam
http://www.stri.org/webcams/barro_colorado/index.php3
Do the monkey! Do the basilisk lizard! Or maybe even the fig wasp. But actually, this particular camera mainly picks up a very beautiful landscape. This time of the year it's a good means to vicariously experience a tropical cloudburst.
Discoverlife.org
http://www.discoverlife.org
A very cool tool that combines a lot of biology databases and lets you look up a large percentage of the living organisms out there --- almost every species of which you have heard, and then some. But if you ask, in Panamanian English, for monkey plums, it can't get you what you need --- yet. Nor do they have the serrated fleebydoo moth. You should expect that they'll add the former a lot sooner than the latter.
Freedom to Marry
http://www.mccchurch.org/mediaroom/2004/freetomarry/
The Metropolitan Community Church has been sanctifying gay marriages for years, but now several US jurisdictions are legally recognizing them, or civil partnerships that give the parties rights similar to those enjoyed by married couples. This is the Metropolitan Community Church's website devoted to the subject.
Ten Stories the World Should Hear More About
http://www.un.org/events/tenstories/
By the United Nations, tales that the US-oriented AOL/Time/Warner/CNN and Faux News and the corporate mainstream media in general tend to ignore.
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